Log in. Login to the site Don't remember me. Forgot your password? Carmageddon: Reincarnation Download Torrent To bookmarks. Every time I played them, I got bored after half a lap, turned my car around and tried to head-on the pack coming the other way. Due to shite collision detection and zero physics in the games at that time, this was rarely satisfying, so I set out to write a game where this was the actual core gameplay mechanic. I was into some pretty banzai Banger Racing at the time, specialising in yanks, Jags and '60s British classics.
I decided to try to capture some of the excitement of this in the game. It was signed up as 3D Destruction Derby. SCi then tried to procure the Mad Max licence for it, and when this failed they tried for Death Race Eventually this fell through as well, so we all thought. Co-designer Neil Barnden has similar memories of the game's original inception: "We put together a very basic demo for 3D Destruction Derby, which had three different cars trundling round a very basic oval track.
The player was able to chase 'em in their car and twat 'em. The demo featured the 'PratCam', where you got to see the driver - in this case, me - reacting to the impacts, which helped add the humour we wanted to convey.
On the strength of touting this demo around ECTS we got some publisher interest, but it was SCi that most quickly signed on the dotted line. Given the final content of the game, it was a brave move by SCi. However, far from attempt to tone down the violence, it seems that SCi actively encouraged it.
According to Patrick, Early on in the development you actually lost points for hitting pedestrians, but it was Rob Henderson of SCi - now boss of Smoking Gun - who said, F k- it, let's just go the whole hog and reward the player for killing people.
The pedestrian collisions were an aspect of the game that the team set about recreating with some gusto, as Neil recalls: In order that our sprite-based pedestrians be made to look incredibly lifelike ahem , we based them on video frame grabs of ourselves 'in action' in the lorry car park outside our office. As part of this highly technical process, we enlisted the help of our friend Tony - who was also the in-game face of Max Damage - as stuntman.
Wearing professional stuntman padding cardboard boxes stuffed up his jumper and using Patrick's Chevrolet Caprice station wagon as stunt vehicle, we proceeded to run Tony over. Many times. While my colleague filmed from the passenger seat, Tony encouraged me to drive into him at higher and higher speeds, as he was determined to roll completely over the roof of the car. That's the kind of guy Tony is. In the end, I drove at him fast enough that he crashed straight through the windscreen.
This, and the office workers in the building overlooking the car park calling the police, signalled that we'd 'got it in the can' for the reference material. Which I then drove up to the local windscreen repair shop with this bloody great person-sized dent in the glass.
As Patrick casually lists, There was the shooting of the chandelier. First with air guns, and then with a homemade rocket launcher. And the way we got the footage for whiplash on the PratCam - belting Tony around the back of the neck with the thick end of a pool cue. And the computer equipment thrown over balconies while working late at night. And the placing of a microwave oven on top of a car that we'd set fire to the week before, filling the microwave with petrol and camping gas cylinders, taping oxyacetylene-filled balloons to it, and turning it on.
But we re a perfectly normal, sensible development company. Amazingly, the game did actually make it to completion, but getting it on the shelves was to provide an even greater challenge in the shape of the notorious British Board of Film Classification.
I had to attend a meeting at their London office with the late James Ferman, the man whose signature famously graced the BBFC certificate for many years, recalls Neil. When the game was submitted to them, they refused to allow it to be released. I admit my recollection of the details of the meeting is hazy. As we were about to go into Ferman's office, I noticed my flies were completely open, and spent the whole meeting preoccupied with whether the Great Man would notice this too and assume I was making some sort of grand gesture.
This, and what followed, made it a surreal occasion. They asserted that the idea of gaining reward for killing innocent people was unacceptable. In order to make their point that the game was morally bankrupt, they had one of their staff, a young guy, play the game in front of us all.
He was clearly having a whale of a time, going for 'artistic impression' bonuses, giggling gleefully as old ladies exploded across his bonnet. James Ferman stood with us behind him, straight-faced, explaining to us how this man was being 'corrupted' by the experience. And the young man agreed: 'Yes, it's really not Our explanation that the game was meant to be a surreal comedy experience fell on deaf ears," recalls Neil. Without changes that would deal with their central objection, the game could not be given a certificate, and so would not be released.
It was perhaps for the best that Patrick Buckland wasn't at the meeting. As he says, Neil did all that stuff, which suited me fine, as I would probably have driven a large vehicle through their building had I been directly on the receiving end of their double standards. We once got a hard time from them because Ferman had spent 'all morning having to watch hardcore gay pornography'. Poor dear.
I bet the twat was just embarrassed because it gave him a hard-on the size of a policeman's truncheon Back to the matter in hand, and both Stainless and SCi were faced with a problem, namely the lack of a game. A compromise had to be reached and the concerned parties eventually agreed to replace the pedestrians with zombies, replete with censor-pleasing green blood.
According to Neil, The zombies were created over the course of one long angst-ridden weekend as the solution to this impasse with the BBFC. Already dead, and filled with nothing more offensive than pus, the zombies were deemed acceptable victims for the young homicidal racing-game fans of Great Britain. As Patrick remembers. They took out an injunction on us. The zombies were bloody irritating.
If red blood is good enough for The Holy Grail, it's good enough for us. Carmageddon was finally released to critical and commercial acclaim and.
Other more low-rent publications were less complimentary though, and the inevitable lazy tabloid backlash promptly ensued, something that Patrick found absolutely bloody hilarious! One of the funniest was that Age Concern officially complained to us because we were depicting the running-over of old people". Similarly, Neil thought that the tabloid coverage was great! Uninformed, bandwagon-jumping rubbish.
Just the stuff to shift more units". And shift units it did, with the game hogging the number one spot like a blood-soaked Bryan Adams if only. Carmageddon also received the ultimate accolade, picking up the coveted Game Of The Year, as voted for by the readers. At a gala occasion at London's Camden Palace, the Stainless team joyously lifted the trophy, and were spotted revelling late into the night, drunk on success and cheap wine.
Even Tony the stuntman got involved, doing a passable impression of Mel Gibson, who he has actually doubled for in the movies or so he claimed. There was a third Carmageddon game in the shape of TDR Or, as Patrick puts it, Absolutely f But you really shouldn't print that.
He still has fond memories of the original world-changing game though, claiming: It has brought violence more into the mainstream. It has also shown that videogames can be genuinely hilarious - I'm not sure that any game before Carmageddon could reduce an entire room of onlookers to tears of laughter.
I'm very proud of that. Overall though, the thing I'm really most proud of is that millions of people around the world have had a laugh because of what I've done. Not many people can go to their grave with that claim. As for Neil, he is similarly full of pride. I was talking to a friend recently about the idea of seeing something that someone else has made, he says. Whether it's a piece of art or a book, a videogame, a film, a television series, whatever, and being so taken with their achievement that you can see no point in continuing doing what you do.
They've done such a perfect job, there's really nowhere left to go. I think you can be struck with this feeling, even if this achievement is in a field other than your own.
Just download and start playing it. We have provided direct link full setup of the game. Impressive vehicular combat game. Fourth installment of Carmageddon series.
Revives the violent and wild action. Features wide variety of cool and crazy machines. Improved topography and details in locations. Carmageddon 2 is a game filled up with violence and death and the more of that you create.
Carmageddon is a game that has no similarity to any other racing games you have ever heard. It is chaotic, violent and insanely, insanely fun.
The point of the game is racing against other computer generated cars in various settings, including cities, mines and industrial areas.
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